Improved manufacture of braid



N.PETERS. PHDTO-LJTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

' l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS H. BOYD, OF MED-WAY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, JOHN ORVIS, OF VEST ROXBURY, JAMES J.'OOBB, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTAND JOHN M.

STERLING, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMA'PROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRAID.`

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37.54 l, dated January 27, 1863.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos H. BOYD, ot'Medway, in the county ot' Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful manufacture, which I call Amosine Braid 5 and I do hereby ticolare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the nature and mode ot' constructing the same, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, which represent it in different forms.

My new manufacture, to which I have given the name of Amosine Braid,7 is designed to be used either by itself or to be attached to o other fabrics or tissues for the purpose of ornament, or for any other purpose to which it may be usefully applied. The mode of constructing this fabric which I have adopted with good success is by employing a sewing-machine having the usual mechanism for forming a seam with any ofthe ordinary forms otstilches, and vhaving in connection therewith certain devicesby means of which one or more threads, cords, braids, or other similar materials are Vinterwoven wit-h the threads of the sewing in a variety ot'ways, so as to form either a kind ot' gimp, or braid, or fringe by means of such interweaving, and also to sew the same onto the surface of cloth or other fabrics in any desired line or figure by the same operation. One, two, `or more' ot' these. ernbroidering threads or cords may be used, of any desired size, color, or material, and interwoven with the sewing-threads in many forms, as will be readily understood from an inspection of the drawings, where several of the forms are represented which the fabric may be made to assume. All of these are made by the same general ymode of operation, in which thesewing-threads may be considered as forming a warp and the ornamenting threads or cords a weft, which, by the operation of the machine, are interwoven with the sewingthreads at the same time that they are also interwoven with the cloth or other fabric by the operation of sewing. And although this braid assumes a considerable ditiference in appearance in the several figures, they all have this fundamental principle of construction and are made by the same machine.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents one means of forming a braid or gimp, with one ornamenting thread or cord beside the sewingthreads crossing between each stitch of the sewing. Fig. 2' is a braid made with two cords drawn closely to the sewing-threads and both crossed at each stitch. Fig. 3 is a braid or gimp made with two threads with the loops of ornamenting-cord left more open, forming a kind of gimp. Fig. et is a fringe formed by extending the loops of the oruainenting-threads the required distance to one side. Fig.5 represents net-work made ot' braids like Fig. 2, formed and sewed onto a piece of thin paper in any pattern desired, which braids. by the process ot'formatiomare also sewed together at the intersections. After the net is completed the paper is removed, leaving the net complete. Fig. Gis a giinp'made with these cords beside the sewing interwoven in the or- A der shown. Fig. 7 is a gimp made with tivo cords, with the intersections of the same with the sewing-threads made at every third stitch.

as shown. Fig. 8 represents thevarieties of interweaving; and Fig. 9 represents a section through the braid and cloth, to show the arrangementofthe threads when two cords are used. The sewing-stitch represented is the chain-stitch,so called; but any other sewingstitch maybe used in the same manner. From this section it may be seen that although the several forms shown have a dii'erent appearance the mode of operation by which they are made is substantially the samel in all,.and many other forms may also be iliade by varying the order of interweaving` the ornamenting-cords, and also varying their color, mate rial, and size.

The manner ofarranging the mechanism which I have employed withsuccess in connection with a sewing-machine for producing my new'manufacture in its simplest forms shown in Letters Patent granted to me April 2, 1861, No. S60; but other forms of mechanism operating upon the same principle might Amosine Braid, constructed substantially as be employed instead, and for marking the more described.

complicated kindsof braid other correspond- Boston, August 19th, 1862.

ing changes would be required in the devices which manipulate the ornamenting-cords cor- A' H' BOYD' responding to the style of the fabric to be pro- Witnesses duced. J. J. COBB,

What: I claim as my invention isl WM. C. HIBBARD,

The new manufacture which I have called l MARTIN J. BROCKWAY. 

